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Re:Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tab... by dandrino on Friday March 24, 2017 @10:30PM (#13953769)
This has been a pattern for selecting ranges of text for a long time: if you place your cursor in one location and shift click in another it will select all the text in between. Also works with most file browsers. It's not too hard to imagine generalizing this to tabs, too.

Bonus fact: the itemized selection done via Ctrl-click also works with tabs. If you use Ctrl-W you can close these tabs, or if you drag one of them you can extract all the selected tabs to a new window.

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Re:Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tab... by dzhiurgis on Friday March 24, 2017 @10:36PM (#13953786)
Speaking of patterns, I was pleasantly surprised that cmd+g works same on many browsers as in text editors - navigates to a next search result.
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Re:Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tab... by CharlesW on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:34PM (#13969872)
> It's not too hard to imagine generalizing this to tabs, too.

For sure, it's an "obvious in retrospect" sort of thing once stumbled upon. :) After a bit of research, the mechanics appear to have debuted in Chrome in 2013. Any earlier examples?

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